Invertebrate community dynamics in soft-bottomed streams of northern New Zealand: A spatio-temporal hierarchy

New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-18

  Collier, Kevin J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Artificial substrata; Biodiversity; Inorganic substrata; Lowland; Macrophyte; Monitoring; Sand silt; Wood

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; INVERTEBRATE; MONITORING; SOFT-BOTTOM ENVIRONMENT; STREAM; SUBSTRATE;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

CHIRONOMIDAE; DIPTERA; EPHEMEROPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; MOLLUSCA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 2542637962     PISSN: 00288330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288330.2004.9517213     Document Type: Article

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